Skip to main content
Thumbnail for The secret agent

The secret agent

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-19242016
Books
'The Secret Agent' is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police while ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, but when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.
Main title:
The secret agent / Joseph Conrad.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2016.
Collation:
320 pages ; 19 cm.
ISBN:
9780241259528 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2511757
View my active saved list
0 items in my active saved list